Shel Silverstein's "The
Perfect High" can be thought of in two ways, the quite literal drug-seeking
way, and the abstract never satisfied with life way. I worked at a prison for three years and so
the first way I looked at this was that of the literal. Drug addicts put their high above everything
else: themselves, their families, ect...
So when Baba Fats is threatened with death by the man seeking the
perfect high and tells the man a lie that would leave any normal man to believe
that they will never reach their perfect high without dying, the man gets
excited and gives Baba Fats a high five and leaves to kill a giant, swim in a
monster infested river of slime, and slay a witch to get the perfect high when
the man is already near his death bed.
It really is sad what drug addicts have convinced themselves of and what
lengths they will go to get what they want no matter the consequences.
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